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Who wants to live an excursion less "tourist" and more exciting, then the calzi trekking shoes, take backpack and lunch bag, a wind jacket, gloves and hat (3,000 m freezes in August!) And contacts guides to organize an excursion ad hoc. For example Filippo or Franco Emmi, mountain guides of Linguaglossa (tel. 0957793311, 095647877, cell. 3281152046, www.etnatrekking.com; guides cost 250 euros for one day, 25 euros cable car).
Starting in the early morning and the goal is the summit, the central crater of Mt. Going from the southern side, "three thousand" of the Tower of Philosopher walking for an hour and a half to look at the edge of the crater, suspended over a deep chasm from the walls, between smoke and smell of sulphur.
Then down through the Valle del Bove, the building crater of an ancient volcano exploded 64,000 years ago, leaving a deep caldera 1,000 meters and 5,000 large.
The central crater can be reached from the northern covered by forests of beech, birch and pines, where they live foxes, rabbits, hares, porcupines, or you can go up and down from north to south.
For a less busy day, you can opt for an excursion at low altitude, visiting some caves hewn from sliding underground volcanic eruptions and then dining farm Case Perrotta (Via Andronico 2, tel.095968928, www.caseperrotta.com; 25 euros), and then Sant'Alfio on the east side, not far from the Chestnut Hundred Horses, one can admire the tree's largest Italy, which has a trunk circumference of 22 meters.
Legend has it that in a night of storm under its fronds had found shelter a queen (perhaps Joanna I of Aragon) and its 100 riders.
According to botanists, the tree should have the 2.000ai 4.000anni old.
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